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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 --- 122 days ago http://www.npr.org/blogs/news/2008/03/gop_faces_problems_with_state_1.html?ft=1
| Sen. John McCain must be pleased that his rivals -- Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. Hillary Clinton -- are engaged in what amounts to a verbal knife fight because it gives him time to try and rebuild some of the state GOP organizations that he'll need to win in the fall. And Politico.com writes that he'll have a lot of work on his hands, as the party is still trying to deal with the aftermath of its losses to Democrats in 2006.
"In some of the largest, smallest, reddest and bluest states in the nation, many state Republican organizations are still reeling in the aftermath of the devastating 2006 election cycle, raising questions about how much grassroots help the state parties will be able to deliver to presumptive GOP nominee John McCain," write David Paul Kuhn and Charles Mahtesian for the site.
Republican state parties in New York and California are losing members since 2006 faster than they can count them. "We are dying at the box office," California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said. "We are not filling the seats."
But there are also problems in key states for the fall election like New Hampshire, Arkansas, Kansas, Michigan and Alaska.
In New Hampshire, Democrats out fund raised Republicans 4-1 in 2007. Democratic challenger and former Gov. Jeanne Shaheen is leading GOP Senator John Sununu by double-digits in the latest polls.
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